I initially changed this answer from C to A mid question during the set and like many of you I was confused with the wording and what not. What was helpful was being able to see that the author is against the opinions of "many artists," shown in first line: artists MISTAKENLY, and the ironic waste part in the last sentence. When that thought occurred to me, I realized that was C a poor choice.
IMO, you have to partially block out the time aspect. What I mean by this is internally you should know how much time you have to spend on a question, but don't let it inhibit your problem solving ability. This was my problem. You have to get a sense of when you're spending too much time on a problem, cut your losses, and move on.
The way I internalized this question was:
Conscious awareness is NOT necessary for complex goal oriented behavior
GOB → /C
Merely establishing nonhuman animals are intelligent is NOT sufficient to establish they have consciousness
/I → C
Argument must assume GOB→I
Which is answer choice A.
Negating A: GOB→/I destroys the logical chain
I didnt know why i got this question right it just sounded good.
What can destroy you on this question is if you focus on the WITHOUT and confuse it as a logical indicator. The without is just negating Consciousness, and is not the logical indicator.
thanks for your comments, weaken questions are my weakest type. I have tried that method and seen success. Thanks.
I seem to be struggling with timing on LR. I did a few untimed LR sections from the older lsats and I always get max 2 wrong. My scores drop significantly when timed. Not only do I rarely finish the section, but I am only getting 14-17 right. I feel this is whats holding me back from a high 150s/low 160s score that I am aiming for. I don't know what to do to improve this. Any help would be significant in my studies. Thanks.
Someone please let me know if this is a correct method of reasoning in doing this question.
When I did this question, I immediately notice the gap between "direct conscious control" in the premise and its lack in the conclusion. That allowed me to zone in on answer choices B and D.
I chose D incorrectly, but I also noticed something. D is purely conditional language whereas the correct answer B is using less absolute language that is in line with the conclusion e.g Conclusion: "more likely,"
Answer choice "difficult."